Snapshot and thumbnail of web page with Mozilla / firefox

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Techniques / Web tools : DypsWebCapture

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•  Create a thumbnail snapshot of a web page on the fly with Mozilla/Firefox rendering engine :

Here is the final result :

This short article will show you how to render a webpage to a jpg image with DypsWebCapture and its Mozilla/Firefox embed rendering engine.
You will have write permission on the local folder.

<%
Set Snap=CreateObject("DypsWebCapture.Snapshot")

'Launch a virtual browser window with the dimension :800x600
Snap.pageHeight =600
Snap.pageWidth = 800

'DypsWebCapture rendering browsers 
IE_Browser = 0 'Default rendering engine
MOZ_Browser = 1 'Mozilla 

'Grab mozilla screenshot 
Snap.BrowserType = MOZ_Browser

'Specify the width and height of the image thumnail
Snap.thumbHeight = 130
Snap.thumbWidth = 170

'Grab the web page snapshot on the fly!
'and save it as jpg image 
'Be sure to have write permission on the local folder
'for IUSR_YourNameMachine account!
Snap.GetURL "http://dypso.free.fr",Server.MapPath("dyps.jpg")

'Clean memory
Set Snap = Nothing
			
%>

Documentation: DypsWebCapture object reference < Previous Page